Europe's Coherence Gap in External Crisis and Conflict Management

External interventions to mitigate crises or end conflicts have rarely succeeded. The EU and its member states, in particular, have repeatedly run up against their limits in the civil wars in Afghanistan, the Congo, Libya, Syria, the Sahel region and Yemen. However, the EU –...

Bertelsmann Stiftung - Annual Report 2019

Our founder, Reinhard Mohn – the anniversary of whose death we commemorated in 2019 for the 10th time – said as the new millennium approached: “International cooperation and peacemaking are the order of the day.” That statement has lost none of its timeliness. The...

EU-Asia trade and investment connectivity

Global economic trends over the last decades have steadily increased the links between Asia and Europe. For both regions, a growing economic interdependency represents an opportunity to build strong, fair and sustainable relations. Nonetheless, constant global economic...

We Humans and the Intelligent Machines

Defeat cancer before it develops. Prevent crime before it happens. Get the perfect job without having to know the right people. Algorithms turn long-wished-for dreams into reality. At the same time, they can weaken solidarity in healthcare systems, lead to discriminatory...

Chasing Efficiency

The report examines how in the face of vast pressures on their asylum processing and reception operations, EU Member States adopted a range of instruments to address long-standing structural weaknesses to their asylum systems and sheds light on a number of innovative...

Poster: Attention, Kids‘ Perspectives! Improving ECEC together with children

The poster “Attention, Kids‘ Perspectives! Improving ECEC together with children” is the result of a comprehensive project that included both research and practice-development segments. It visualizes 23 quality dimensions from the perspective of children at ECEC centers,...

User’s Guide: Attention, Kids‘ Perspectives! Improving ECEC together with children

The User’s Guide "Attention, Kids‘ Perspectives! Improving ECEC together with children" gives you information on how to use the poster "Attention, Kids‘ Perspectives! Improving ECEC together with children" and background information on the research and practice-development...

Informal Learning and WTO Renewal

WTO committees hold so-called „thematic sessions“. These informal meetings help to adopt a more forward looking agenda than the usual committee routine does. They also provide an opportunity to bring in outside stakeholders and experts on specific topics of interest to the...

Reforming WTO Conflict Management

The incapacitation of the Appellate Body in December 2019 was a huge blow to the judicial arm of the WTO. When improving and reforming rule enforcement at the WTO, it is however vital not only to look at the top if the dispute resolution pyramid but equally at the bottom. In...

Spillovers, Subsidies and Multilateral Cooperation

Negative international spillovers created by nontariff policies are a rising source of trade tensions and conflicts. The WTO does not include rules for subsidies for services industries, state-owned enterprises or investment incentives. Existing disciplines on industrial...